The Royal Canadian Pacific: As someone who grew up flipping through the pages of "Nicholas Morant's Canadian Pacific," the idea of shooting an A-B-A set of CP F-units leading a passenger tr... (more)

Montana Rail Link's Dirt Local heads east on the evening of September 22. With the conclusion of the Milltown Dam removal, the last loads of dirt will roll east on Thursday.

In near whiteout conditions, Maine Eastern M420 3573, of CN and St. Lawrence and Atlantic heritage, breaks trail through Bath, Maine on the morning of December 22, 2010. Behind the short local is ... (more)

"Closing Time, One Last Call For Steam:" The clock is ticking on the western slopes of Mt. Washington in New Hampshire's White Mountains. Within weeks the sounds of steam will occur only once a da... (more)

Last Light: BNSF grain train GMITTAC9-15H rolls through a tunnel and into the light just east of West Glacier, Montana on June 20, 2011. At other times of the year the light is gone from th... (more)

With flooding in the Heartland, BNSF dispatched a ballast extra east on June 5, 2011. The train is seen here at Java Creek Trestle just east of Essex, Montana on BNSF's Hi-Line Subdivision.

With flooding in the Heartland, BNSF dispatched a ballast extra east on June 5, 2011. The train is seen here crossing the Sheep Creek Trestle, just east of Essex, Montana, through the stunning sce... (more)

Maine Eastern M420 No. 3573 crosses the bridge at Nequasset, Maine, just east of Bath, on the morning of Dec. 30, 2009.

A Montana Rail Link GP35 is framed by a fuel pump as it sits at the Missoula fuel rack on a November night in 2008. Image obtained with permission.

An eastbound grain train decends Evaro Hill on Montana Rail Link's 10th Sub. on the morning of November 25, 2009. It was the second of three empty grain trains that would cross the hill during the... (more)

With blue skies overhead VIA Rail train 17, The Chaleur starts its 19-hour journey west back to Montreal, Quebec and passes the beaches at Douglastown, Quebec on the Gaspe Peninsula. 10-years and ... (more)

Made famous by photographers like Phil Hastings and Ron Nixon, Marshall Canyon, south of Spokane, Wash., is still a location that makes for a good photo. Such is the case on the afternoon of Janua... (more)

An eastbound BNSF manifest freight rolls along the Flathead River near Perma, Mont. on Montana Rail Link's 10th Sub on the morning of Sept. 4, 2011. Leading the way is BNSF SD75I 8295, sporting wh... (more)

The westbound St. Maries River Railroad Plummer Job rolls across the Peedee Trestle in Heyburn State Park on May 17, 2010. Like the railroad itself, the two GP9s are of Milwaukee Road heritage.

With the clouds moving out just in time, a westbound BNSF grain train makes its way along the Clark Fork River on Montana Rail Link's Forth Sub. May 10, 2009.